New Orleans Museum of Art

Studio KIDS! Holiday Workshops
2017-12-29 09:30 - 12:30 (America/Chicago) | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Explore your artistic side this holiday season! NOMA offers 3 single-day Studio KIDS! Holiday Workshops to engage young artists in the creative process. Students will explore works of art in the museum galleries and get creative in the studio.
Call 504-658-4128 or email education@noma.org to register or for more information.
9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Price per class: $30 members / $35 nonmembers
Friday, December 29
Shake, Rattle, and Roll!
Ages 5-10
Ring in the New Year by creating your own noisemaker inspired by British Victorian New Year’s rattles.
Full schedule can be found here.

Studio KIDS! Holiday Workshops
2017-12-28 09:30 - 12:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Explore your artistic side this holiday season! NOMA offers 3 single-day Studio KIDS! Holiday Workshops to engage young artists in the creative process. Students will explore works of art in the museum galleries and get creative in the studio.
Call 504-658-4128 or email education@noma.org to register or for more information.
9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Price per class: $30 members / $35 nonmembers
Thursday, December 28 SOLD OUT! Waiting list is available.
Beaded Beasts
Ages 5-10
Go wild with beading your favorite animal onto a bag inspired by beaded works of art created by Indigenous peoples of Canada.
Full schedule can be found here.

Closed for Christmas
2017-12-25 10:00 - 17:00
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be closed on December 25 in observance of the Christmas holiday.

Christmas Eve - Special Hours
2017-12-24 11:00 - 17:00
NOMA and the Besthoff Sculpture Garden will be open on Sunday, December 24, from 11 a.m. to 5 pm. Find those last-minute gifts in the Museum Shop!

StoryQuest
2017-12-23 11:00 - 11:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Spark imagination, creativity, and a love of reading. Professional authors, actors and artists bring the world of children’s literature to NOMA in this family program. Family activities are offered after each StoryQuest to encourage museum exploration.
Saturday, December 23: Rivers
Ideal for ages 2-7. No registration is necessary. StoryQuest is included with museum admission.
Find the full schedule here. Contact 504-658-4100 or education@noma.org with questions.
Major support for StoryQuest is provided by the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Screening of An Affair to Remember | Holiday Tunes with DJ Neil Pellegrin | Gallery Talk with John Lawrence on photographer J.D. Edwards in East of the Mississippi | Vintage Christmas Performance by New Orleans Dance Academy | Café NOMA Cooking Demo
2017-12-22 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30 – 8 pm: Retro Holiday Music by WWOZ DJ Neil Pellegrin
6 – 7 pm: Gallery Talk with John Lawrence on photographer Jay Dearborn Edwards in East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography
6:30 pm: Cooking demonstration with Café NOMA executive chef Chris Montero
6:30 – 7:30 pm: Vintage Christmas dance performance by the New Orleans Dance Academy
7 pm: Screening of an Affair to Remember (1957)

ABOUT NEIL PELLEGRIN
Neil Pellegrin regularly hosts the Tuesday night 1950s’ Rhythm and Blues Show on WWOZ 90.7 FM. He developed an affinity for vintage R&B and rock ‘n’ roll as a teen (roughly 20 years ago). From there, he began digging deep for obscure artists and tracks from the mid-20th century. He will spin stacks of wax of vintage holiday tunes.
ABOUT JOHN LAWRENCE
John Lawrence is director of museum programs at The Historic New Orleans Collection, where he has worked since 1975, and a professional photographer. He has extensively researched the life and career of 19th-century New Orleans photographer Jay Dearborn Edwards. Edwards was was among the earliest photographers to document the city. In the three years leading up the Civil War, he appears to have made at least 118 “Views of New Orleans.” His vision of the city offers a remarkable compendium of construction, shipping, and business activity. Although he rarely focused on the human countenance, Edwards captured the full sense of the nation’s third-largest port at its antebellum height, and his work is represented in the current NOMA exhibition East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography.
ABOUT CAFÉ NOMA COOKING DEMONSTRATION
Join Café NOMA executive chef Chris Montero for a special cooking demo featuring party appetizers and libations to impress your holiday guests. Featured items will include favorites from the café’s menu: golden beet sliders, Creole Country Italian sausage flatbread pizza, and hot cinnamon apple cider. Samples will be served.
ABOUT NEW ORLEANS DANCE ACADEMY
Established in 1990, the New Orleans Dance Academy offers instruction in classical ballet, flamenco, jazz, tap, and hip hop in a friendly, noncompetitive atmosphere. The children’s dance program consists of several levels of instruction and culminates with an annual spring performance. A troupe of five students will perform a vintage Christmas dance.
ABOUT AN AFFAIR TO REMEMBER
Cary Grant and Deborah Kerr star in this romantic drama filmed in 1957 and nominated for four Academy Awards. Grant portrays Nickie Ferrante, a suave lady-killer whose return to New York to marry a rich heiress is well publicized as are his many antics and affairs. He meets a nightclub singer, Terry McKay (Kerr), who is also on her way home on board a cruise ship to reunite with her longtime boyfriend. She sees Nickie as just another playboy and he sees her as standoffish, but over several days at sea they soon find they’ve fallen in love. Torn by their obligations to others, the couple agrees that they will meet again in six months time atop the Empire State Building. This will give them time to deal with their current relationships. On the agreed date, Nickie is waiting patiently for Terry who is racing to join him. Fate intervenes, however, resulting in misunderstanding and heartbreak and only fate can save their relationship. (Not Rated | Watch the trailer)
Friday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans.

Noontime Talk: East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography with Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper
2017-12-20 12:00 - 13:00
Join Curatorial Fellow Brian Piper on a tour of East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography with an emphasis on industry and agriculture. East of the Mississippi marks the first exhibition of nineteenth-century photography from the eastern half of the United States. Noontime Talks are brief, casual discussions on exhibitions or works of art in the galleries given by NOMA curators and special guests. For more information, call (504) 658.4100. Wednesdays are FREE for Louisiana residents with ID thanks to The Helis Foundation.

David Lynch Film Retrospective | Mulholland Drive
2017-12-16 14:00 - 16:00
In this five-film retrospective on select Saturdays in November and December, NOMA invites audiences to look back at David Lynch’s on-screen creations and consider his early artistic influences. (All films are free to members; standard museum admission applies to non-members.)
ABOUT MULHOLLAND DRIVE
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality. The net-noir mystery film stars Naomi Watts, Laura Harring, Justin Theroux, Ann Miller and Robert Forster. The story includes several other seemingly unrelated vignettes that eventually interlock, as well as some surreal and darkly comic scenes and images that relate to the cryptic narrative. (2001 | Rated R | 2 hours, 27 minutes | Watch the trailer)

Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
2017-12-16 10:30 - 11:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of 6 workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am

This free 6-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
December 16 | Workshop 6 – Get Your Motor Running (motor skills)
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 0-3.
Contact education@noma.org or 504-658-4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.

Studio KIDS!
2017-12-16 10:00 - 12:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Get Creative with Studio KIDS!
This Fall, Studio KIDS! presents Art 101 for young artists. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and build up their artistic skills. In each class, Studio KIDS! explores art made by diverse cultures as inspiration for art projects. From sculpting to painting, each class features different media and techniques. Register for one class or the entire series. Make sure to sign up in advance to ensure your spot.
Call 504.658.4100 or email education@noma.org to register or for more information.
Ages 5 – 10 | 10 am – 12 pm
December 16 SOLD OUT! Waiting list is available.
Sculpture 101 | Storied Structures
Transform everyday objects into structures that tell a story.
Cost per class:
$25 | members
$30 | nonmembers
Full schedule can be found here.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Opera on Tap | Gallery Talk with Mary Niall Mitchell on East of the Mississippi | Landscape on Film Series screening of Days of Heaven
2017-12-15 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films. All galleries and exhibitions, Café NOMA, and the Museum Shop remain open till 9 pm.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
6 – 8:30 pm: Music by the New Orleans Opera Association’s Opera on Tap
6 pm: Gallery Talk with Mary Niall Mitchell on “The Photographer and the Cityscape in the 1850s” within the exhibition East of the Mississippi
7 pm: Landscape on Film Screening: Days of Heaven

ABOUT OPERA ON TAP
In October 2007 the Big Easy partnered with the Big Apple to make New Orleans the first official Opera on Tap franchise. Each season, the New Orleans Opera presents the finest young local and regional singers in casual, 90-minute concerts of opera, Broadway and more. Now in its eleventh season, Opera on Tap–New Orleans is attracting people from around the world.
ABOUT MARY NIALL MITCHELL
Mary Niall Mitchell is the Ethel & Herman L. Midlo Chair in New Orleans Studies, Joseph Tregle Professor in Early American History, and Associate Professor of History at the University of New Orleans where she co-directs the Midlo Center for New Orleans Studies. She will deliver a Gallery Talk on “The Photographer and the Cityscape in the 1850s,” with emphasis on Philadelphia photographer James McClees and New Orleans photographer Jay Dearborn Edwards.
Mitchell is the author of Raising Freedom’s Child: Black Children and Visions of the Future after Slavery (NYU Press, 2008). Her latest book project, The Slave Girl in the Archive, is a study of race, photography, slavery, and memory in the nineteenth century. Mitchell is one of three lead historians for Freedomonthemove.org, a collaborative database of fugitive slave advertisements housed at Cornell University. She has written for the New York Times Disunion blog, Harper’s Magazine, The Atlantic, and Common-place.org. She has received fellowships and awards from the American Council of Learned Societies, the Harry Frank Guggenheim Foundation, the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, and the J. William Fulbright Foundation.
ABOUT DAYS OF HEAVEN
In conjunction with East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography, three films with dramatic landscapes will be screened. In Days of Heaven, a steelworker, Bill (Richard Gere) flees Chicago after a fight with his boss, taking his little sister, Linda (Linda Manz) and girlfriend, Abby (Brooke Adams) with him to the rural Texas panhandle. Terrence Malick’s screen poem about life in America at the turn of the century is a story of love and murder told through the voice of a child and expressive images of nature in 1916. (Rated PG | 1 hour, 35 minutes | Watch the trailer)
Friday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans.

David Lynch Film Retrospective | The Straight Story
2017-12-09 14:00 - 16:00
In this five-film retrospective on select Saturdays in November and December, NOMA invites audiences to look back at David Lynch’s on-screen creations and consider his early artistic influences. (All films are free to members; standard museum admission applies to non-members.)
ABOUT THE STRAIGHT STORY
Alvin Straight has not shown up to his regular bar meeting with his friends. He is eventually found lying on his floor at home, although he insists that he “just needs a bit of help getting up.” His daughter Rose takes her reluctant father to see a doctor, who sternly admonishes Alvin to give up tobacco. He also tells Alvin that he should start using a walker. Alvin refuses. Alvin then learns that his brother Lyle has suffered a stroke. Longing to visit him, but unable to drive, Alvin gradually develops a plan to travel to his brother’s home, crossing Iowa and Wisconsin on a riding lawnmower and towing a small homemade travel trailer, to the consternation of his family and friends. Actor Richard Farnsworth was terminally ill with metastatic prostate cancer during the shooting of the movie, which had spread to his bones and caused the paralysis of his legs as shown in the film. The Straight Story also stars Sissy Spacek and Harry Dean Stanton. (1999 | Rated G | 1 hour, 52 minutes | Watch the trailer)

StoryQuest
2017-12-09 11:00 - 11:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Spark imagination, creativity, and a love of reading. Professional authors, actors and artists bring the world of children’s literature to NOMA in this family program. Family activities are offered after each StoryQuest to encourage museum exploration.
Saturday, December 9: Houses
Ideal for ages 2-7. No registration is necessary. StoryQuest is included with museum admission.
Find the full schedule here. Contact 504-658-4100 or education@noma.org with questions.
Major support for StoryQuest is provided by the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation.

Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
2017-12-09 10:30 - 11:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of 6 workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am

This free 6-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
December 9 | Workshop 5 – Up, Down & All Around (spatial awareness)
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 0-3.
Contact education@noma.org or 504-658-4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.

Studio KIDS!
2017-12-09 10:00 - 12:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Get Creative with Studio KIDS!
This Fall, Studio KIDS! presents Art 101 for young artists. Perfect for students ages 5-10 who want to get creative and build up their artistic skills. In each class, Studio KIDS! explores art made by diverse cultures as inspiration for art projects. From sculpting to painting, each class features different media and techniques. Register for one class or the entire series. Make sure to sign up in advance to ensure your spot.
Call 504.658.4100 or email education@noma.org to register or for more information.
Ages 5 – 10 | 10 am – 12 pm
December 9 SOLD OUT! Waiting list is available.
Ceramics 101 | Bodacious Boats
Explore the ancient Egyptian boat figures before creating your own ceramic ship.
Cost per class:
$25 | members
$30 | nonmembers
Full schedule can be found here.

Create Late
2017-12-08 18:30 - 20:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Exclusively for adults, kick off your weekend with a glass of wine and a paint brush! Unwind with a teaching artist-led art project while enjoying Friday Nights at NOMA programming. Reserve your space now!
Friday, December 8
6:30 – 8 p.m.
Black & White | Develop your drawing skills by creating a still life using charcoal pencils.
NOMA Members | $25
Nonmembers | $30
Price includes materials, wine, and access to Friday Nights at NOMA programming.
Contact education@noma.org or 504.658.4100 to reserve your space today! Reservations close at 4 pm the day of each workshop.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by Marcus Akinlana | Lecture: “Improving Nature: Image Manipulation in Nineteenth-Century Photography,” by France Scully Osterman and Mark Osterman
2017-12-08 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Marcus Akinlana
6:30 – 8 pm: Create Late: Black and White (charcoal still life)
7 pm: “Improving Nature: Image Manipulation in Nineteenth-Century Photography,” a lecture by France Scully Osterman and Mark Osterman

ABOUT MARCUS AKINLANA
Marcus Akinlana is an artist, traditional African Sango priest, martial arts instructor and drummer. He lives in New Orleans, where he co-runs Positive Creations Fine Arts and WON Mural Society with his wife Fatu Akinlana, two art companies both founded in the 1980s. He has also cofounded Ile Eko Asa Yoruba Ni New Orleans, a study institute for traditional African culture and spirituality. In 2012, Akinlana also founded Avalanche JA Self Defense and Combat School, a martial arts training academy. Akinlana is a professional drummer and now combines his visual arts with music.
ABOUT FRANCE SCULLY OSTERMAN AND MARK OSTERMAN

France Scully Osterman is an artist-educator and lecturer at Scully & Osterman Studio and guest scholar at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, both in Rochester, New York. She has received glowing reviews of her “Sleep” exhibit in Art in America, Paris Photo Magazine, and the Village Voice. France is recognized for her extensive knowledge of early photographic processes including photogenic drawings, wet-plate and dry-plate collodion, albumen, and salt print methods. She gives lectures and workshops at museums and universities and teaches in her nineteenth-century skylight studio.

Mark Osterman is Photographic Process Historian at the George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film. He teaches the technical evolution of photography from Niepce heliographs to making gelatin emulsions. As an artist, his series “Confidence,” based on a traveling medicine show he performed for twenty years, received high praise in Photo Review, After Image, and Zoom magazines. Osterman’s most recent writings on the subject of early photographic processes include the nineteenth-century chapter for the Focal Encyclopedia of Photography . He began research in historic photographic processes while attending the Kansas City Art Institute in the 1970s.
Friday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans.

Noontime Talk: East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography with Curator Russell Lord
2017-12-06 12:00 - 13:00
Join Curator Russell Lord on a tour of East of the Mississippi: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Photography with an emphasis on the business of being a photographer. East of the Mississippi marks the first exhibition of nineteenth-century photography from the eastern half of the United States. Noontime Talks are brief, casual discussions on exhibitions or works of art in the galleries given by NOMA curators and special guests. For more information, call (504) 658.4100. Wednesdays are FREE for Louisiana residents with ID thanks to The Helis Foundation.

David Lynch Film Retrospective: Blue Velvet
2017-12-02 14:00 - 16:00
In this five-film retrospective on select Saturdays in November and December, NOMA invites audiences to look back at David Lynch’s on-screen creations and consider his early artistic influences. (All films are free to members; standard museum admission applies to non-members.)
ABOUT BLUE VELVET
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child. Blue Velvet blends psychological horror with film noir and stars Kyle MacLachlan, Isabella Rossellini, Dennis Hopper and Laura Dern. Lynch has called it a “film about things that are hidden—within a small city and within people.”

Sculpture Garden Tour
2017-12-02 12:00 - 13:00
Join NOMA’s docents for a free guided tour of the Sydney and Walda Besthoff Sculpture Garden on Saturdays at noon through mid-December. Sited on five acres adjacent to the museum, the garden contains more than 60 works by renowned sculptors placed among a picturesque mature grove of pine, magnolia, and moss-draped live oak trees bisected by a lagoon. Represented sculptors include Pierre Auguste Renoir, Rene Magritte, Henry Moore, Isamu Noguchi, and Robert Indiana, among others. Meet at the gates to the garden, which offers free admission year-round.

Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
2017-12-02 10:30 - 11:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of 6 workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am

This free 6-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
December 2 | Workshop 4 – Let’s Move! (movement)
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 0-3.
Contact education@noma.org or 504-658-4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.

Friday Nights at NOMA: Music by the Underground Railroad Freedom Singers | Lecture: “Navigating Rivers and Music East of the Mississippi” with Nick Spitzer and Captain Doc Hawley
2017-12-01 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA opens the museum’s doors for many interesting activities throughout the year: live music, movies, children’s activities, and more. Regular admission prices apply—NOMA members are FREE—but there is no extra charge for programs or films.

5 – 8 pm: Art on the Spot family activity table
5:30 – 8:30 pm: Music by Underground Railroad Freedom Singers
7 pm: “Navigating Rivers and Music East of the Mississippi” with Nick Spitzer and Captain Doc Hawley

ABOUT THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD FREEDOM SINGERS
Started by National Park rangers Matt Hampsey and well-known local musician Bruce “Sunpie” Barnes, the Freedom Singers perform traditional spirituals that enslaved people sang in America in the early to mid-1800s, many of which were revived 100 years later and adopted by civil rights activists.
ABOUT NICK SPITZER AND CAPTAIN DOC HAWLEY
Nick Spitzer, the producer and host of the radio program American Routes, is a folklorist and a professor of anthropology and American studies at Tulane University. Nick specializes in American music and the cultures of the Gulf South, and received a Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas in 1986 with his dissertation on zydeco music and Afro-French Louisiana culture and identities.As Louisiana State Folklorist (1978-85), he created films, festivals, exhibits and recordings of regional music, and co-produced a 90-minute Folk Festival USA special on Louisiana music for NPR, helping to bring Cajun music and zydeco to national visibility. His work continued at the Smithsonian, where he curated folk festival programs and directed or served as commentator in films about American music, including Great Performances, broadcast on PBS and the Discovery Channel. He has also served on the boards of the Fund for Folk Culture and the National Council for the Traditional Arts.
The original “Master of the Steamboat Natchez”—New Orleans’ only steamboat— Captain Clarke C. (Doc) Hawley, was awarded the River Legend Award as part of the Seamen’s Church Institute’s 2013 River Bell Awards. The award celebrated Captain Hawley as the “Pied Piper” of the French Quarter. During the course of his long river career, Captain Hawley has served as master of three out of five remaining Mississippi River steamboats, including the Steamboat Natchez—the last authentic steamboat on the Mississippi River. Although Captain Hawley retired in 1995, he continues to serve the Steamboat Natchez as a calliope player.
Friday Nights at NOMA is supported in part by grant funds from the Azby Fund; Ruby K. Worner Charitable Trust; New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival and Foundation; and the Louisiana Division of the Arts, Office of Cultural Development, Department of Culture, Recreation and Tourism, in cooperation with the Louisiana State Arts Council as administered by the Arts Council of New Orleans.

David Lynch Film Retrospective | Eraserhead
2017-11-25 14:00 - 16:00
In this five-film retrospective on select Saturdays in November and December, NOMA invites audiences to look back at David Lynch’s on-screen creations and consider his early artistic influences. (All films are free to members; standard museum admission applies to non-members.)
ABOUT ERASERHEAD
Henry Spencer tries to survive his industrial environment, his angry girlfriend, and the unbearable screams of his newly born mutant child in David Lynch’s big-screen writing and directing debut. The film, starring Jack Nance, Charlotte Stewart, Allen Joseph, defies conventional logic and storytelling, fueled by its dark nightmarish atmosphere and compellingly disturbing visuals. (1977 | Not rated | 1 hour, 29 minutes | Watch the trailer)

StoryQuest
2017-11-25 11:00 - 11:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Spark imagination, creativity, and a love of reading. Professional authors, actors and artists bring the world of children’s literature to NOMA in this family program. Family activities are offered after each StoryQuest to encourage museum exploration.
Saturday, November 25: Forest
Ideal for ages 2-7. No registration is necessary. StoryQuest is included with museum admission.
Find the full schedule here. Contact 504-658-4100 or education@noma.org with questions.
Major support for StoryQuest is provided by the Patrick F. Taylor Foundation.

Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
2017-11-25 10:30 - 11:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of 6 workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am

This free 6-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
November 25 | Workshop 3 – My Body (learning body parts)
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 0-3.
Contact education@noma.org or 504-658-4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.

No Friday Nights at NOMA
2017-11-24 17:00 - 21:00
Friday Nights at NOMA will not be held on November 24 following Thanksgiving Day.

Closed for Thanksgiving
2017-11-23 10:00 - 18:00
In observance of Thanksgiving, NOMA will be closed on Thursday, November 23. Please visit us for the remainder of the holiday weekend from November 24-26.

Studio KIDS! Holiday Workshops
2017-11-21 09:30 - 12:30 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Explore your artistic side this holiday season! NOMA offers 3 single-day Studio KIDS! Holiday Workshops to engage young artists in the creative process. Students will explore works of art in the museum galleries and get creative in the studio.
Call 504-658-4128 or email education@noma.org to register or for more information.
9:30 am – 12:30 pm
Price per class: $30 members / $35 nonmembers
Thursday, November 21 SOLD OUT! Waiting list is available.
Monumental Collages
Ages 5-10
Inspired by Robert Rauschenberg, tell your own story by creating a large mixed media collage.
Full schedule can be found here.

Prospect.4: The Lotus In Spite of the Swamp Opening Weekend Celebration
2017-11-18 14:00 - 17:00
Prospect New Orleans is a citywide triennial of contemporary art in New Orleans. Emphasizing collaborative partnerships, Prospect presents the work of diverse local, national, and international artists in unique and culturally exceptional venues, creating an optimistic cartography through the education and engagement of residents and visitors. NOMA will showcase works by six artists: Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Barkley L. Hendricks, Dawit L. Petros, Xaviera Simmons, Gauri Gill, and Rajesh Vangad. Prospect.4 is themed “The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp,” and the triennial will run from November 18, 2017, through February 25, 2018.
The opening weekend will include the following gallery talks at NOMA on Saturday, November 18:

2 pm: Welcome by Prospect.4 Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker in the Great Hall, followed by a Gallery Talk by NOMA Curator Katie Pfohl and Filipa Oliveira, P.4 Artistic Director’s Council, with artists Njideka Akunyili Crosby and Xaviera Simmons in the Modern and Contemporary Galleries
3 pm: Gallery Talk by NOMA Curator Russell Lord with artist Dawit Petros in the Photography Galleries

ABOUT NJIDEKA AKUNYILI CROSBY
Nijideka Akunyili Crosby was born in Enugu, Nigeria in 1983 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She was one of Financial Times’ 2016 Women of the Year, and was shortlisted for the 2017 Future Generation Art Prize. She is the recipient of the Prix Canson Prize, 2016, Foreign Policy’s Leading 100 Global Thinkers of 2015, the New Museum’s Next Generation Prize, 2015, the Joyce Alexander Wein Artist Prize, 2015, and the Smithsonian’s James Dicke Contemporary Art Prize, 2014. Recent solo exhibitions include I Refuse to be Invisible, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach (2016) and The Beautyful Ones, Art + Practice, Los Angeles (2015), staged concurrently with a solo presentation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2015). Akunyili Crosby has recently displayed work at institutional venues including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); the New Museum, New York (2015); and The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York (2014). Her work is in the collections of the Yale University Art Gallery, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, The Norton Museum of Art, Zeitz MOCAA, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Whitney Museum of American Art.
ABOUT XAVIERA SIMMONS
Xaviera Simmons’ work spans photography, performance, video, sound, sculpture and installation. She defines her studio practice, which is rooted in an ongoing investigation of experience, memory, abstraction, present and future histories—specifically shifting notions surrounding landscape—as cyclical rather than linear. Simmons is committed equally to the examination of different artistic modes and processes. Simmons received her BFA from Bard College (2004) after spending two years on a walking pilgrimage retracing the Transatlantic slave trade with Buddhist monks. She completed the Whitney Museum’s Independent Study Program in Studio Art (2005) while simultaneously completing a two-year actor-training conservatory with The Maggie Flanigan Studio. In 2015, Simmons was awarded the Foundation for Contemporary Arts (Robert Rauschenberg) Grant. Simmons has exhibited nationally and internationally where major exhibitions and performances include The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; The Public Art Fund; The Sculpture Center; The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; and the Brooklyn Museum, among many others. Her works are in major museum and private collections including The Nasher Museum, Deutsche Bank, The Rubell Family Collection, UBS, The Guggenheim Museum, The Agnes Gund Art Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, The Studio Museum in Harlem, ICA Miami, the High Museum of Art in Atlanta, the Perez Art Museum in Miami, and David Castillo Gallery.
ABOUT DAWIT PETROS
Born in Asmara, Eritrea, Dawit Petros lives and works Montreal, Chicago, and New York. He investigates boundaries in artistic, geographical, and cultural contexts. His practice centers around a critical rereading of the relationship between African and European modernisms. His current research investigates historical and contemporary narratives of mobility. Petros studied art as a Fulbright Fellow at Tufts University/School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; photography at Concordia University, Montreal, and history at The University of Saskatchewan. Recent exhibition venues include The Kansas City Art Institute’s H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City; Huis Marseille Museum of Photography, Amsterdam; The Kennedy Museum of Art at Ohio University, Athens, Ohio; and The Studio Museum in Harlem. He has been awarded an Independent Study Fellowship at the Whitney Museum of American Art, an Art Matters Fellowship, and Canada Council for the Arts Production Grants. His works are in institutional collections including The Studio Museum in Harlem, The Royal Ontario Museum of Art, and the Saskatchewan Arts Board.
ABOUT TREVOR SCHOONMAKER
Prospect.4 Artistic Director Trevor Schoonmaker, Chief Curator and Patsy R. and Raymond D. Nasher Curator of Contemporary Art at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, has selected 73 local, national, and international, artists that will present their work throughout New Orleans for Prospect.4. The triennial will continue the organization’s tradition of showcasing the work of artists from around the globe. Taking into consideration the 300th anniversary of New Orleans’s founding and the city’s strategic location on the Gulf of Mexico, P.4 will direct its focus southward, placing greater emphasis on art and artists that engage the Global South, specifically from North America, Latin America, the Caribbean, Africa, and the European powers that colonized these regions.

Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
2017-11-18 10:30 - 11:00 | New Orleans Museum of Art, 1 Collins Diboll Circle, New Orleans, LA, 70119
Baby Artsplay! at NOMA
Instill a love of art at a young age through a guided, hands-on gallery experience. Young Audiences Wolf Trap teaching artists will present a series of 6 workshops for caregivers and children ages 0-3. Learn how to integrate music, movement, and drama into everyday playtime to foster children’s developmental growth.
Saturdays at 10:30 am

This free 6-part workshop series provides engaging arts based activities designed to instruct caregivers on how to use the arts at home to promote early learning.
November 18 | Workshop 2 – Baby Says…(language development)
Space is limited. Register today: www.yabap.eventbrite.com
Ideal for ages 0-3.
Contact education@noma.org or 504-658-4128 if you have any questions.
About Young Audiences
For over 50 years, Young Audiences of Louisiana has operated arts in education programs that promote academic excellence and social growth through the arts. Studies have shown that students enrolled in Young Audiences programs outperformed their peers on standardized tests, exhibited fewer disciplinary issues, and had increased school attendance.
About Wolf Trap Institute
Young Audiences / Louisiana Wolf Trap has been an affiliate of The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts since 2010. The Wolf Trap Institute for Early Learning Through the Arts, a program of the Wolf Trap Foundation, was established in 1981 under a grant from the Head Start Bureau of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services serving children birth through kindergarten. The goal of the Institute is to provide early childhood educators with professional development training in the use of performing arts techniques within educational curriculum goals and outcomes for young children. The infusion of arts-based techniques into daily routines provides powerful teaching strategies that can be used to enhance all areas of development, including emergent literacy, self-esteem and socialization, problem solving, receptive and expressive language, motor skills and self-regulation, science and math, conceptualization, and creativity, in order to provide a solid foundation for all future learning.
